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13 Mr. A. J. Anderson saw four Flickers in the possession of a 
. squatter, who had shot them along the Missouri river. 
9. Prairie Horned Lark. Otocoris alpestris praticola. Noted 
on December 25 by Arthur R. Abel, who found a flock of ten. 
The same observer saw these birds frequently during January 
and February. 
10. Bluejay. Cyanocitta cristata. This bird was heard al- 
most daily throughout the winter in Morningside. However, it 
is only an occasional straggler that remains over the winter. 
11. Crow. Corvus brachyrhynchos. The Crow is very abun- 
dant at all seasons. Its winter roosts in this vicinity have not 
been located. They begin to fly in certain lines early in March, 
and are then seen in large flocks ; by the first of May the flocks 
have almost completely broken, no doubt because of domestic 
duties. 
12. Red Crossbill. Loxia curvirostra minor. Early in No- 
vember, 1916, a flock of fifteen to twenty were seen in a 
pine tree in Morningside. They were again seen on the 28th 
in about the same number. Throughout December the birds 
were occasionally seen, but the flock had scattered. A single in- 
dividual was seen on January 20, which was the last record. 
They probably left the vicinity after consuming the limited sup- 
ply of pine seeds. 
13. Redpoll. Acanthis l. linaria. This is one of the. erratic 
species, wdiose movements must form an interesting problem. In 
the winter of 1910-1911 the Redpolls were noted in this locality 
by several observers, and there may have been a fairly general 
visitation by them at that time. On January 10, 1915, Mr. W. 
J. Hayward reported a flock of eight at Crystal Lake. Aside 
from this record the writer has no knowledge of this species oc- 
curring in our region since 1910 until 1916. 
The first record of this winter was a single male noted at 
McCook Lake by Mr. A. F. Allen on October 29. On November 
5 Mr. G. O. Ludcke saw a flock of about twenty near Crystal 
Lake. Two males were seen by Edwin Hickman on December 
21. Mr. Wier R. Mills wrote me of seeing a flock of about 
twenty Redpolls in the town of Pierson, Woodbury county, and 
that they were seen intermittently for some time afterward. 
During January they became much more numerous, and were 
seen oftener and by more observers. The same condition pre- 
